Some of the soldiers' names in the original tribe were chosen by their parents, and some were recognized by everyone, but some words cannot be chosen casually, such as the names of former chiefs, such as war and hunting.
Dongsheng didn't have a name at first, and was always called by people casually. Later, when he became a second-level soldier, he heard that he was born in Dongsheng, so he named himself Dongsheng.
Dongsheng didn't know who his parents were, and he was raised by the tribe together when he was very young. He was almost pushed out and eaten when there was no food in winter. At that time, the third-level soldier Ya rescued him back in exchange for his share.
Missing Tooth, who has now become a veteran, said that he was just repaying his father's kindness for saving him from the beast. Dongsheng didn't owe him anything, but Dongsheng still remembered this kindness.
"Dongsheng, the woman with missing teeth is here again." The guard soldier of the only opened west city gate followed Dongsheng who came carrying things.
Dong Sheng nodded, he had already received the news.
The guard had a good relationship with him, so he held him back, and said unhappily: "It's fine once or twice. From the beginning of winter to the present, do the math yourself. How many times has this woman come to you? Even if you lack teeth, you used to That's enough for the answer."
"I just help them get through this winter." Dongsheng thought about it, and explained: "The woman has a child again, and the child before the tooth loss has not been able to stay."
The guards stopped talking. They still had some respect for the old soldier with missing teeth. They also knew about missing teeth. Wanting this unborn child, no matter how difficult it is, the missing teeth will not take the initiative to come to Dongsheng.
"Hmph, look at how we are doing now, the woman with missing teeth is not the only one here!" Another guard snorted coldly.
Several people looked at each other and smiled wryly together.
At the beginning, when people from Yuanji found them, they felt relieved and proud. After being begged once or twice, many people gave a lot of things to the people who came looking for them.
Unexpectedly, if they gave it once, it would be as if they couldn't stop it. People kept looking for it, and most of them were women and children.
Dong Sheng greeted the guards, walked out of the west gate with his things on his shoulders, crossed the inner moat, and walked to the side of the road.
The woman who had been waiting there for a long time was rubbing her hands and stomping her feet in the cold. When she saw him coming out, her face was filled with joy and she wanted to run over. The snow was too deep for her to run, and she approached Dongsheng one by one. He kept shouting, "Dongsheng, here, I'm here."
Dongsheng had seen her a long time ago, seeing her big movements, he quickly stopped her: "Stand there and don't move, I'll come over."
The woman's belly is already a little protruding, which is not very obvious under the cover of the slightly thick fur coat in winter, but it can still be seen.
Dongsheng speeded up, stepped on the snow and walked in front of the woman, and put down the sack on his shoulders, "There is a pickled leg meat, half a bag of Muyuan fruit flour, and some dried wild vegetables, you take it back for the missing tooth. "
The woman's aging face was filled with an attentive smile. She grabbed the sack and opened it with trembling fingers that were about to freeze. Just this little flour? Can you have a little more? Your toothless uncle has a bad mouth, and the food made of this flour is easy for him to eat, so he eats more."
Dongsheng's face seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't draw any expression, "There are not many Muyuan fruits in the first place, and everyone can get even less. All the flour I get is here."
The woman murmured softly: "The many must be dedicated to your priests and leaders."
"Fart!" Dongsheng was slightly annoyed, "Do you think Master Mo is as greedy and selfish as that old man Qiu Shi? If this flour is in the original place, no one can get it except for a few people! And if it weren't for Master Mo, we wouldn't be able to eat it." to this thing."
"Gan Yu didn't find out about that. That woman Gan Yu, she didn't want the chief when she saw a better man. She even carried her child away. She was so shameless!"
"Enough!" Dongsheng told himself many times in a row that "the other party has a child with missing teeth", and he suppressed his anger and said, "Don't come here in the future, and you won't come out even if you ask me."
The woman became anxious when she heard this, "Dongsheng! The winter is still so long, you can't hunt without teeth, and you don't get enough food. If you don't help him, our family will starve to death! You... If you didn't Uncle Missing Tooth, how did you live to such an age? You have already been cooked by the tribe! You must have a conscience!"
Dongsheng snatched the sack, put it on his shoulders and left, leaving a sentence: "That's okay, you let the missing tooth come to me."
The woman never thought that Dongsheng would take the sack back again, she was taken aback for a while, and when she saw Dongsheng walking away, she hurriedly chased after him, crying while chasing: "Dongsheng! You can't That's it! You gave me those things in Yijing, you can't take them back! Dongsheng... Oh, my stomach, my stomach hurts so much!"
The woman lay prone on the snow, rolling and crying.
Dong Sheng turned his head, pursed his lips, threw the sack beside the woman, and went into the city without looking back.
When the woman saw the sack, she stopped crying immediately and got up immediately, her stomach in the way did not cause any obstacles to her, as if she was afraid that someone would snatch it, she grabbed the sack and dragged it away.
Hide, Lie and the others were aware of these things that happened in the tribe, but they didn't deal with them without affecting the overall situation.
The more than 300 people who left originally had a bad life, so that’s fine. When they were doing well, looking at their former clansmen, even if they still had hatred and resentment, but because of some kind of strange and distorted superiority psychology, they let it go. They felt a little sympathy and pity for the original people.
In fact, the life of the original tribe is not worse than before, even a little better than before, but this is without comparison with Jiuyuan.
With Jiuyuan as a comparison, the life of the dwarves with fixed houses for shelter from wind and rain is much better than them.
Although they also lived in houses in the outer city at the cost of prey, those houses are not like the dwarves, and a family can own one, and they are not stone houses, but Jiuyuan let the dwarves build another one for speed The adobe house is in charge of digging the pit by the blood warriors of the Sirang tribe who have the ability to manipulate the soil.
These adobe houses are built in a semi-pit style. People do not live on the ground, but in a pit. The pit is covered with half of the wall and roof. To save materials, the pit was dug very large and long, and it was erected in sections. Pillars, used to support the roof.
This kind of pit-style adobe house is warm and warm, but it is very dark and troublesome. The snow in front of the door and on the roof must be swept away every day, otherwise people will be buried in the snow.
Moreover, there are so many people living together, some people don't pay attention to hygiene, and they refuse to go out to defecate in cold weather, especially children, which makes the whole pit full of foul smell that cannot be removed.
There is still a fire to cook in the pit, and there is a lot of smoke and ash layer. Those who don't scrub diligently will have dirty faces, hands and feet.
The original fighters wanted to dig holes to build their own houses, but they had not been stimulated with the ability of blood vessels, and all the Sirang people ran to Jiuyuan again. No matter how powerful they were, they could not dig out the frozen stone-like land in a short time .
Some people think that even if they spend a lot of effort digging a hole to build a house, they will leave in the spring of next year. The newly built earthen pit house does not know how many days they can live in, so it is better to make do with it.
This kind of thinking infected one person after another. Within a few days, no one mentioned the matter of building a separate house, and everyone made do in the big pit house provided by Jiuyuan.
The fact that a woman with missing teeth came back with a sack after going out, no matter how much she concealed it, was still seen by many people.
Seeing the sack, Missing Tooth immediately turned extremely ugly, "Are you looking for Dongsheng again? Didn't I tell you not to look for him again?"
The woman turned her face and scolded in a low voice: "If you don't go to him, what are we going to eat? The food you got is not enough for us to fit between our teeth!"
"I've already saved all the food for you..." The sallow and thin toothless man watched the woman's stomach and swallowed the second half of the sentence.
The woman knelt down beside him, grabbed his arm, and said in a lower voice: "Go and talk to Dongsheng, let him find a way to get us into Jiuyuan too. As long as you are willing to go and tell him, he will Will definitely help us."
"No! Shut up!" The missing teeth covered the woman's mouth, "Stop talking, be careful not to be heard."
The woman looked around and saw that many people were staring at them... She immediately sat down on the sack she had dragged back, and did not dare to mention the matter of going to Jiuyuan again.
The woman wanted to hide all the food and was looking for a place when the elder and several warriors came.
"Missing teeth, I won't tell you if there are too many of them. According to the rules of the tribe, whoever finds food in winter must take it out and let the tribe share it equally." The elder coughed and signaled the missing teeth to hand over the food on his own initiative.
Missing Teeth was unwilling, but with so many people watching, he didn't dare to hide his secrets.
The woman was anxious, and immediately shouted: "Why! This is the food I managed to get back. Why should I distribute it to everyone? We hand it in, and you won't share it at all!"
"Missing tooth!" The elder didn't care how the woman cried, but only stared at the missing tooth.
The missing teeth clenched their teeth, and the cheek muscles twitched.
"Missing teeth, the tribe has already taken good care of you. We didn't see the food your woman brought back a few times before, but winter is still very long. If everyone is like you, what about those who can't get food?"
"I don't accept it!" The woman shouted: "You say that missing teeth can't hunt, and the food given to us is the least, so why should we share the food we get now? Give us your share!"
"Missing teeth, don't let your woman make trouble again." The elder's gaze swept over the woman's stomach.
The woman's body was cold, and all protests were blocked in her throat.
Missing Tooth immediately got up, and poured out the contents of the sack to the warrior who followed the elder.
The elder nodded, and said to the missing teeth as if he was talking to other people nearby: "Although the chief said that people from his own tribe are not allowed to eat from this year, but that is when everyone is not hungry. If there is really no food, The chief can't insist on this. If any of you can get food, find a way, and the food you get back will give you a little more, and in the future, if you have slaves, you will be the first to choose."
The elder sighed suddenly when he said this, "I know everyone thinks that our life is not as good as that of Jiuyuan. Many people even want to leave the tribe and become Jiuyuan people. The chief and the priest all know what everyone thinks, but what should we do? Our last Powerful fighters were tempted by priests of other tribes, abandoned us, hunted for other tribes and priests of other tribes, and established tribes. It is clear that most of the warriors in Jiuyuan and their leaders are from our original tribe.”
The people in Yuanji envy the people in Jiuyuan, and this envy has turned into deep jealousy and hatred in the middle of winter.
that is! Obviously they are all from a tribe, so why do they live better than us
If they had not betrayed the tribe, there would be no Jiuyuan, only Yuanji, this city, this land, and these great rivers would all be ours!
The elder sighed again, "Well, the chief has already said that if Da Zhan is willing, he is willing to hand over Yuanji to Zha. Then we and Jiuyuan will be in the same tribe, but... I'm afraid their priests won't want it."
The elder's words pierced deeply into Yuanji's heart, this was not the first time they had heard this. For the merging of the two tribes, they are all in favor from the bottom of their hearts. They wish they could merge into one tribe tomorrow. They can also live in the inner city, enjoy a stone house for each person, and have enough food to eat. I heard that the people of Jiuyuan What kind of kang is still made now, and I am not afraid of the cold when I sleep at night.
Some people thought that since the chief said that he would hand over the tribe to Zhan, it would be fine for the old priest to hand over the sacrificial inheritance to the young priest. From what the people in Jiuyuan said, it would be good for Lord Mo.
The elder's old eyes with bags under his eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one. He felt something was wrong in his heart, and he was afraid that he would not be able to fulfill the priest's request. I'm afraid Da Zhan and their priests won't believe us either, and our soldiers won't be reused after passing, maybe they'll be squeezed out and sent out to do the most dangerous missions."
Yes, the elder was right. If they were replaced, I'm afraid they would not forgive the clansmen who abandoned themselves so easily. Everyone in Yuanji, who originally thought about merging, now had a layer of disappointment and slight resentment on their faces.
In the inner city of Jiuyuan, Hide went to see Yuan Zhan alone.
After listening to the report, Yuan Zhan, who was using subtle operations to exercise his mental strength, raised his eyelids, "It's strange that the old guy didn't respond, he would release these rumors, probably because he was afraid that people who would come to Yuan when the winter passed Nine turns out."
"But now the Yuanji people seem to have changed from guilt to jealousy and resentment towards us. The day before yesterday, there were soldiers from the Yuanji hunting nearby in violation of our requirements. Their people also had several conflicts with the dwarves, all for the purpose of robbing us. prey."
"How is Hao now? He didn't come forward to stop the actions of the original soldiers?"
Frowning ferociously, "I'm also surprised that Hao is not that kind of person. With his temperament, he will only fight with us, and he will not take the initiative to trouble us. This time he will take the initiative to ask to live in Jiuyuan for the winter, and I am very upset." strangeness."
Yuan Zhan looked down at the three round earth balls suspended in his palm, and manipulated them around with his mental power, "I'll go talk to Hao at night."
At this time, Hao sat cross-legged on the animal skin, looking coldly at the old priest who was not aging.
The old priest, wrapped in thick fur, leaned across the ditch.
The two did not live in the big pit, but lived in a separate pit house nearby, separated from each other by animal skin curtains.
"Who are you? You are not Qiushi." Hao said with certainty.
The old priest grinned, showing his old yellow teeth, "How do you know I'm not Qiushi?"
"My priest, how could I not recognize it?"
"Well, smarter than I thought." The old priest opened a small animal skin bag, pinched a piece of dried meat from it, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it carefully.
"What do you want?" Hao regretted. He should have killed the old priest immediately when he found out that he was wrong, instead of calling someone to question him. Then I thought that before the winter, the old priest persuaded him to be closer to Gan Yu and the child as a temptation, and promised him that he would not eat people from his own tribe, so that he could be shaken and agreed to propose to spend the winter in the outer city of Jiuyuan , Is it also one of this person's conspiracy
"I still need you, so you won't die."
Hao was not at all happy to hear this answer. He will not die, but he will definitely become a puppet.
The old priest did not hide his intention, "You are a smart person, then continue to be smart and keep your mouth shut. I want Jiuyuan, and you want Yuanji people to live a life without worrying about food and food." Good day in winter, we can work together."
"How to cooperate?"
"You continue to be the chief, and I will continue to be the priest of Yuanji. I will help Yuanji become a tribe that is nearby, even stronger and richer than the three cities, and you just need to cooperate with me and don't hinder me from doing anything. .”
"So good? You think I'll believe it?" Hao sneered.
"It's easy for me to kill you, and it's easy for me to kill the entire Yuanji. If you don't want to, I can change a chief, or even a tribe."
"If I tell Jiuyuan about you..."
The old priest smiled strangely, "I'm not afraid of Jiuyuan, I just want their city and this piece of land. Even if you tell Jiuyuan, the people from Yuanji will die in the end. A super blood warrior can't kill me!"
Trench silence.
"Chief Hao, if you keep silent and listen to me obediently, you will become the chief of a large tribe that you can't imagine. You will have food, women, weapons, and power! That Gan Yu will return to you By your side, including your children. Think about it, can you really endure the betrayal of your own woman, and endure the original men becoming stronger fighters than you? Don’t you want to surpass the original battle, and don’t want your woman to use it again? Looking at you with adoring eyes?"
Hao clenched his fists.
"As long as you listen to me, I will give you the right crystals to speed up your upgrade, and you will become a more powerful blood warrior in a short time. Your ability is very special. If you use it well, you will be more advanced than you." Warriors may not be able to defeat you, at the same level, you can crush them! But if you don’t want to, the first one to die will be that woman named Gan Yu, and the second one will be your child, I promise, no Man can save them."
The old priest's old eyes revealed three points of pride and seven points of sinister viciousness, just like a devil tempting people to go to hell, "Choose, die a miserable death like this, or sit on the world."